Shortgate scandal at work

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[Shut Up Legs]

I believe everyone should be allowed the chance to show off their legs at work: especially us cyclists, because our legs just look so good, don't they?

 

[AndyRM]

We used to have a dress down day every 4th Friday of the month. Through summer I wore shorts every time. In August, my manager pulled me and said that 'Wearing shorts isn't really the done thing'. I looked pointedly at the ladies in the office sashaying around in skirts. He had no come back, but I was still the only guy in an office of around 2,000 that ever wore shorts.

Cowards.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Are women in your office allowed to wear shorts?

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Ha ha ha - company I work for used to allow shorts until a colleague wore some shorts that were too short, and his member popped out / appeared.

For this reason, shorts are banned - much to our annoyance.

Perhaps we could have a minimum length rule (for the shorts mind).

 

[w00hoo_kent]

A guy at a friends workplace has a penchant for short, tight, shorts and to stand dynamically (say, one leg perched on a chair or box) when in conversation. He dreads having 'meetings' with the guy.

I'm sat here in shorts, we don't really have a dress code. Higher education, mediocre pay, fantastic creature comforts...

 

[tyred]

Easy fix - wear a kilt.

 

[Cycleops]

You should work in Australia. It's the norm there when buying a business suit for it to come with a pair of matching shorts! Brits are too stuffy.

 

[swee'pea99]

We used to have a dress down day every 4th Friday of the month. Through summer I wore shorts every time. In August, my manager pulled me and said that 'Wearing shorts isn't really the done thing'. I looked pointedly at the ladies in the office sashaying around in skirts. He had no come back, but I was still the only guy in an office of around 2,000 that ever wore shorts.

Cowards.

I remember being quite surprised when I visited Australia for the first time to find people like bank tellers wearing shorts as a matter of course. It looked a bit odd to me, but clearly it just was, to quote the expression upthread, 'the done thing'.

 

[Over The Hill]

OH the joys of being self employed! One warm year I managed shorts from May until the end of September.

I can confirm I am wearing shorts now and my skiving off work to go onto CC is not connected with this.

 

[FeistySquirrel]

I would be sent home if I wore shorts at work.

Apparently Marks and Spencer don't appreciate leg hair in their ready meal sauces....

 

[Dan B]

Sex discrimination claim? An employer is allowed to impose different dress codes for male vs female employees, but they should not "treat one sex less favourably than the other". If there's no provision in the dress code for men to wear clothing suitable for the present weather conditions but women are allowed shorts and (I assume) skirts, that would seem on the face of it to be less favourable treatment for men

(I am not a lawyer, if it wasn't obvious from reading that. But perhaps nobody in your HR department is either?)

 

[Sara_H]

I'm very luck as a laydee. In this weather at work I usually wear an a-line skirt which lets the breeze waft around beautifully.
For most of my carreer I've been in a nurse nylon tunic and trousers, which was like hell in this weather. My OH wears the get up now and says he often feels like he's got a kind of trench foot round his knackers.

 

[luckyfox]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcvjXAtzaMU

 

[Piemaster]

Ah the joys of being an oliy engineer and working gear being a boilersuit during working hours, tee shirt and shorts off duty. Even during a Brazilian winter I'd regard a working environment anything below 35 degrees as 'cool'. Boilersuits generally better without holes.

Having said that when one visitor complained 'bloody engineers, all walking about with boilersuits unzipped to the navel' and I told him I went commando as well he disappeared and never visited again.